Home Again

Great trip to Vail to see all of the Katz tribe. Wonderfully cool weather and no rain. We stayed at the Beaver Creek compund for almost a week and did very little except hang out which was the goal, I think. Well, lets be honest: I did very little. Kate went boarding with Kiley, really enjoyed being towed across a lake in a inner tube, went hiking, saw deer and christened a new bird the Colorada ack ack. We subsequently learned that it was a Magpie which brought on tales of Inkspell. These birds are gorgeous but have terrible personalities. Oh, yeah, it was sandwich time and we ate sandwiches morning, noon and night.

With the ghosts of the doomed Air France flight in my mind, we actually had a very easy and successful flight home, arriving back in the dead of night. Great dinner with the Sheftalls on the following night who were on pausing on their way up to Maine from Georgia. They are all in fine fettle and have done great summer stuff.

Kate is just hanging out --without the Itouch and the computer -- which she lost due to a major meltdown. I hope that she is at the Bronx Zoo at this very moment and then she Off to camp next week and then it's our turn to trip the light fantastic.